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I can swim. I just have a seriously hard time sinking. No joke. I have to work to go down.
Me, too. I've got some extra buoyancy on account of being fat.
While servicing my sailing yacht I dropped a part of the furler in the water while docked. A new piece was stupidly expensive and would take two weeks to get, while I was cruising on a schedule.
So I dropped the anchor and climbed down the chain to look for it. At the end my wife found it. We probably spent a good three hours diving and feeling around in the soft mud for it.
Glad you found the piece. Had to look what that item was. In a word. OUCH
Have you tried emptying your lungs? It sounds crazy, but you actually don't have to completely fill your lungs with air, just enough so that you can last a good while underwater and so that you're no longer buoyant. It takes some practice, and you might panic a little bit at first, but once you get used to that, it just becomes second nature.
The only times I hold as much air as possible are when I'm trying apneas (holding my breath as long as possible), but I stay near the surface for that and I remain inmobile. (Also, make sure there's more people with you and that you're signing that you're fine)